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North American Modern Pollen Database
Description
A database of modern pollen samples from a network of sites from North America and Greenland, compiled by Whitmore et al. (2005). Associated climatic and vegetation data are also record. The version of the NAMPD included here is latest version 1-7.3 (February 2013), as of January 2016.
Usage
data(Pollen)
data(Climate)
data(Biome)
data(Location)
Format
For Pollen
, a data frame of 4833 samples and 135 columns (the
unique identifier and 134 pollen taxa).
For Biome
, a data frame of 4833 samples on, currently, a single
vegetation variable (plus the unique identifier):
ID2
Unique, sequential number assigned by NAMPD.
Fedorova
Factor; Vegetation type (Biome) See Whitmore et al. (2005), Figs 3 & 4. Reclassified biomes from Fedorova et al (1994).
For Location
, a data frame of the latitude and longitude
locational data for 4833 samples.
ID2
Unique, sequential number assigned by NAMPD.
Latitude
Latitude of the sampling location in decimal degrees.
Longitude
Longitude of the sampling location in decimal degrees.
For Climate
, a data frame with 4833 observations on the
following 32 variables.
ID2
Unique, sequential number assigned by NAMPD.
t[jan:dec]
numeric vectors; Mean monthly temperatures for the indicated month. Degrees C.
p[jan:dec]
numeric vectors; Mean total monthly precipitation (mm) for the indicated month.
tave
numeric; annual average temperature (Degrees C)
tmax
numeric; maximum temperature (in Degrees C) observed over the period of record.
tmin
numeric; minimum temperature (in Degrees C) observed over the period of record.
gdd0
numeric; Growing degree days computed using a base of 0 degrees C.
gdd5
numeric; Growing degree days computed using a base of 5 degrees C.
mtco
numeric; mean temperature of the coldest month.
mtwa
numeric; mean temperature of the warmest month.
annp
numeric; mean annual total precipitation (mm).
Details
These datasets were extracted from Version 1.7 of the North American Modern Pollen Database.
All pollen species were included, however, only the Vegetation type (Biome) field of the AVHRR data and selected Climatic variables were extracted. Requests for additional variables to be included in the versions of the data included in the package should me sent to the package maintainer.
Warning
Note that the data for the pollen species are a mixture of types. The
DataForm
variable contains information on the type of data
included for each site. The codes are:
- RC
raw counts
- RP
raw counts expressed as percentages
- DC
digitised counts
- DP
digitised counts expressed as percentages
- PM
counts in permille
This value is not known for all samples.
Source
The database is archived electronically at two sites:
http://www.lpc.uottawa.ca/data/modern/index.html
https://williamspaleolab.github.io/datavis/
References
Whitmore, J., Gajewski, K., Sawada, M., Williams, J.W., Shuman, B., Bartlein, P.J., Minckley, T., Viau, A.E., Webb III, T., Anderson, P.M., and Brubaker L.B., 2005. North American and Greenland modern pollen data for multi-scale paleoecological and paleoclimatic applications. Quaternary Science Reviews 24:1828–1848.
Williams, J.W., Shuman, B., Bartlein, P.J., Whitmore, J., Gajewski, K., Sawada, M., Minckley, T., Shafer, S., Viau, A.E., Webb, III, T., Anderson, P.M., Brubaker, L.B., Whitlock, C. and Davis, O.K., 2006. An Atlas of Pollen-Vegetation-Climate Relationships for the United States and Canada. American Association of Stratigraphic Palynologists Foundation, Dallas, TX, 293p.
Williams, J.W. and Shuman, B., 2008. Obtaining accurate and precise environmental reconstructions from the modern analog technique and North American surface pollen dataset. Quaternary Science Reviews, 27: 669–687.
Fedorova, I.T., Volkova, Y.A., Varlyguin, E., 1994. World vegetation cover. Digital raster data on a 30-minute cartesian orthonormal geodetic (lat/long) 1080x2160 grid. In: Global Ecosystems Database Version 2.0. USDOC/NOAA National Geophysical Data Center, Bould, CO.
Examples
data(Pollen)
data(Climate)
data(Biome)
data(Location)